CRNA group urges AB 876 to codify delegation, medical‑staff voting and title; BRN cautions on statutory limits for regs

Melanie Rowe, practice director for the California Association of Nurse Anesthesiology, told the Board of Registered Nursing’s Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist Advisory Committee on Sept. 18 that AB 876 — then on the governor’s desk — would, if signed, help codify elements of CRNA practice and urged further statutory and regulatory clarifications.

Rowe said AB 876 “gives clear authority to CRNAs to select and administer medications and therapeutic regimens in the course of carrying out an order for anesthesia services,” and she outlined three priorities not fully resolved in the bill: (1) explicit authority for CRNAs to delegate perioperative orders to registered nurses and other staff; (2) removal of regulatory limits that prevent nonphysician independent practitioners from serving as voting members of hospital medical staffs; and…